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11. About Epiphan frame grabbing technology The video capture workstation
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Figure 8: Epiphan USB device driver
You can also find the Frame Grabber from the Windows Control
Panel by opening the Scanners and Cameras control panel
application.
DirectShow
DirectShow is the standard Microsoft DirectShow multimedia
API. The Epiphan USB device driver can send captured images
directly to DirectShow. This means that any DirectShow-
compatible application can receive captured images. For example,
you can use applications such as VirtualDUB to record avi files,
Microsoft Media Encoder to record wmv files, and RealProducer
to record rm files all consisting of a series of captured images sent
to DirectShow by the Epiphan USB device driver. See “Using a
DirectShow application to record video files” on page 107 .
You can also create your own custom DirectShow-compatible
video capture application to record captured images from
DirectShow.
The Epiphan capture API
The Epiphan capture API also receives captured images from the
Epiphan USB device driver. The Epiphan capture API is
optimized for processing Epiphan Frame Grabber captured
images. The Epiphan capture API analyzes individual images,